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Japanese photographer Jun Morinaga (1937-2018) presents "River: Accumulation (With Shipping Box)," a photo collection. Known for his work as an assistant to Eugene Smith, the American photographer who brought Minamata disease, a pollution-related disease, to the world, Morinaga graduated from Nihon University College of Art's Department of Photography in 1960, joined the photography department of Iwanami Productions in 1961, and became Smith's assistant in 1962. In 1969, he held a solo exhibition, "Moment Monument," and the following year won the Japan Photo Critics Association Newcomer Award. Since then, he has exhibited his work regularly. This is Morinaga's first photo collection, composed of images primarily of Tokyo's rivers (then known as sewers). The photographs, taken in the early 1960s, depict the sluggish river surface, covered in mud and oil, the corpses of fish, and riverbanks. The unique artistic expression evokes the feeling of gazing at a monochrome abstract painting, and the book is bound by Kohei Sugiura, who also worked on Kikuji Kawada's "Maps." This is one of the best photobooks ever created. "No real people appear in these photographs. Yet to me, the various undercurrents of resentment of our time seem to swirl relentlessly within them" (Eugene Smith). Shipping box included.